Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards discuss the origin of assists and reminisce about Olivier Giroud’s amazing assist for Arsenal against Norwich, and suggest the Frenchman’s career “doesn’t get the appreciation” it deserves.
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In the year Leicester won the league, at the business end of the season, Giroud went scoreless in like 13 league games, as Arsenal’s main striker when they had a chance of winning the league….he’s done well, especially with the national team, but I feel like there’s a lot of revisionism about this guy 😂
I didn't realize that there were three people on the panel until 10 seconds into the show. You only showed two people. It felt misleading and exclusive. Include all three of the participants in the room right at the top of the show, not just two.
Such great assists. but i would have included Cantona's assist for Irwin goal vs Spurs. Caveat: Im a United fan.
I can’t imagine a assist ever feels the same as a goal for a professional
Assists became a thing as the game became more accessible to Americans.
Giroud is not underrated because he's being hailed as "underrated" every single time someone mentions him. We know how good he is, he's rated well lol
The talk about Giroud. I love the man, when he was at Arsenal as a Chelsea fan I still loved him. He was always the one striker if the ball was rolling across the 6 yard line to him I'd be like "he'll miss that" and he would but then a cross comes in that's 5 feet behind him and he'll somehow acrobatically get on the end of it and it'd fly in. Such an entertaining player to watch for the above reasons for me. Not a great goalscorer but a scorer of great goals. Love the man!
I believe people started caring about assists because of the Messi and Ronaldo debate. We became so focused on statistics in football during their era, goals and assists became the most important factor for how some people judge a player. I still remember not too long ago, think it was Jamie Redknapp, watching Sky Sports and the pundits were ridiculing recording assists being a thing.
Messi and Ronaldo broke football. When a player would get 30 goals back in the day we'd go crazy. When players did that in the Messi and Ronaldo era, no one really cared because those two would get 50/60 goals a season.
Micah Richards must feel embarrassed.. He's sat with 2 legendary players.. What has he done¿¿ why is he there.. Same as sky.. We all know why
It started after USA 94. It came from American sport.
Micah has about 4 stories
an assist came from the north american influence. hockey always mentioned assists
Giroud is a very classy striker. Not the most clinical and that maybe stops him being spoken about amongst the elite. His movement, first touch and ability to score from awkward positions is unmatched. A real team player.
An incredibly frustrating player when playing as the main striker.
Think Henry changed it. Goals and Assists were his thing
You will not rewrite history 😂 i love Giroud as an Arsenal fan & wish we kept him, however he is not underrated in the slightest. Very much gets as much respect as he deserves, should have scored way more if anything
I was actually annoyed when Chelsea let Giroud go. He was such a great player for us, scored key goals for us and I suppose was underrated by the manager at the time
Fantasy football has made assists important
Zico – when the assists are better than the goals.
Everytime you see Giroud do a little flick or back heel in the middle of the park during the lead up to an Arsenal goal. Just know there was twice as many that went straight back to the opposition.
Agreed around 2004 / 5 I think fifa also and the American introduction of the game as they were obssesed with assists when I used to play online with them. They have it in all American sports. NBA especially.
He's actually massively overrated.
It began with Michael Laudrup – He was simply the best
Always been a fan of Giroud and would have loved to have seen him in a Black and White shirt of Newcastle United
Honestly, this feels a very English conversation…counting of assists has probably risen with the embrace of statistics, and for the EPL the embrace of wider styles of play in the past couple of decades and statistics, but while certainly tens and playmakers always scored goals, appreciation of passes and pass makers has always been a bigger part of watching the game in other parts of the world. To me, a lot of the English football laments–who's the great passer missed, who should've been the "Golden Generation" midfield, etc, always feel self-defeating–those aren't the players the game/culture celebrated, so those aren't the players that England paid attention to. I mean, they exist/existed, but they weren't appreciated or developed the way they mightve in Itay or Spain or Brazil, etc,. It's counting who makes passes that lead to goals! Of course you want track that!